Defense Minister: Israel needs to recognize the occupation must end By News Agencies 19/04/2010; Original article: Haaretz Israel must recognize that the world will not put up with decades more of Israeli rule over the Palestinian people, Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in unusually frank remarks Monday. Barak’s comments came against the backdrop of severe…
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Nothing, it seems, can clean up the Israeli brand worldwide Israel remains near the bottom of the world rankings, despite massively favourable press coverage in Western and Western-controlled international media. Neither does Western governments’ political, economic and diplomatic support for Israel seem able to convince their populations that Israel is clean. Even in Germany, where…
Continue Reading BBC Poll: world still views Israel as polecat state despite skewed press coverage
Ken Macintosh MSP, co-organiser with Scottish Friends of Israel of an exhibition on ‘Israel’s contribution to technology, science and medicine’, has confirmed in press reports the purpose of the exhibition: to whitewash the crimes of a state. While Palestinians continue to face house demolitions, land confiscations, killings and more, and while Gaza continues to live…
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Robert Brown Send us a copy of your MSPs responses or if you receive no response: angus@scottishpsc.org.uk Have your MSPs signed the Scottish Parliament motion calling for cancellation of exhibition? Contact your MSPs to sign the motion! Write to Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister Take part in the protest outside the Scottish Parliament MSPs refusing…
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by Ori Lewis and Ivan Karakashian, Reuters, 23 April 2009 “It doesn’t matter how many times we convince ourselves and our staunch allies that we are not war criminals, and that those who try to portray us as such are incorrigible Jew-haters,” wrote Anshel Pfeffer in the liberal daily Haaretz, Israel’s public relations machine is…
by Larry Defner, published in Nation Branding AS FOR “rebranding” – which means changing the subject from “the conflict” to all the cool and groovy things about Israel – this is insipid. This is an insult to people’s intelligence. It’s an attempt to airbrush certain little details – specifically, endless war and hatred – out…
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